People Ex Rel. O'Malley v. 6323 North LaCrosse Avenue

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• Ilinois Constitution guarantees right to a jury trial in civil forfeiture proceeding involving real property allegedly used to facilitate drug trafficking
• in civil forfeiture proceeding involving real property used to facilitate drug trafficking, Illinois Constitution’s jury trial provision mandates that claimant has right to jury trial; statute which denied such right was unconstitutional
• “Contraband per se consists of items which are inherently illegal to possess. There is a vast difference between the forfeiture of contraband per se and the forfeiture, by an innocent third party, of legal property — in this case a residence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).